Thank you to everyone who still reads my work and then visits my profile to read this, I really do appreciate it. Getting reviews, follows or favorites for things I wrote years ago (or yesterday) always makes my day a little better. Thank you, thank you. I am somewhat ashamed of some of the things, but I realize now writing is a progression, and leaving some of my less savory things up shows that. Anywho...

As of April 2014: I am working on a number of things, including AWAR, OMD, maybe some more of the Matlock story, and a number of Silmarillion related things, generally centered around Maglor and Maedhros (as usual for me). I am going to try to post something for AWAR soon, I just want to have more of the story written before I do. I need to work out some of the timing. But, however, I did NOT give up on it. Or any of this. Really.

May 2015: Feeding trolls:

LOOK people, I am about to take these stories down if I get more reviews saying "are you coming back are you going to do this or do that." I get you're impatient, I get you're wanting to know what happens next. I'm sorry these are taking me so long.

Let me point out that I am a graduate student in chemistry. What this means: I work 100 hours PER WEEK in my job, and I am never caught up to where I should be. I am defending my PhD thesis in less than a year, and it's not as if I only deal with my own problems on a day to day basis, I also mentor students and teach classes (oh wait, and I have a family, pets, a second job and a life outside of all of this). I'm busy.

I'm being super stressed and harassed by something that was formerly my vent and stress-relief. What I write in fandoms I write for FUN, and to RELAX. If you, the rude-toned reviewers and PM'ers, are pressuring me, rudely, to do something, I'm not going to see the relaxation from it and I'm not going to enjoy it anymore. And it's not going to happen. While I'm saying things, no, I don't write to get only positive reviews, so yes, bad reviews are allowed. You can hate what I write, I don't care.

I've been writing fan fiction for over ten years, and have stuck with this platform despite AO3 being better in many ways. You all have become ruder and more ridiculous and are making me want to leave. Stop asking whether or not I'm dropping these stories. No, I'm not. They will happen when they happen. I'm trying to make it so that when I have the time, energy and (now dwindling, because of some of you) motivation, that the quality of what I'm writing doesn't change. Right now I don't have the time to make sure that the next chapters – which I do have, tyvm – are the same level of intricacy and quality as the last chapters. Leave off the reviews, or please be encouraging and don't be rude.

I will get there when I get there.

Oh, and by the way, the time I just spent writing this whole business COULD have been spent writing the next chapter of Rosings or OMD, but no. I'm doing this instead.

November 2015:

Thank you to everyone who has been encouraging me since I last posted that message in May. I thank you for the kind things you have written, and while I am still six months away from freedom (which is frightening within itself!), there is a very small light at the end of the tunnel.

I will be back, as will all the things I've left hanging. :)

April 2016:

I have a job lined up for after, and I will be back at this whole thing in a few weeks. I am ALMOST PhDone and you have no idea how wonderful it is going to be for me. Thank you again to everyone who has read, favorited, and followed me and my writing in the last few months. You are all great.